One of CNSNews.com reporter Susan Jones’ main jobs over the past year has been to try and spin coronavirus infection and death rates in an apparent attempt to make President Trump look good by comparing more recent numbers to the original surge last March and April. But as the pandemic rose to new heights, Jones couldn’t do that. So the spin in her Dec. 17 article was that, yes, more people are dying, but they’re mostly old people so it’s not that bad:
In the past week, Wednesday to Wednesday, another 14,527 people, at least, died of coronavirus in this country, according to the most recent data posted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As the table shows, the vast majority of those COVID-involved deaths — 13,816 — were in people age 55 or older, according to death certificates filed with CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
From the very beginning of the pandemic, medical experts warned that the elderly and infirm were particularly vulnerable to the virus, and that continues to be the case.
Jones went on to concede that “the COVID death toll has been rising sharply since early October” and that “the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging Americans to “act now” to slow the spread” as winter sets in and holiday gathering occur. Trump’s name did not appear at all.
But that, apparently, was all the honesty about coronavirus that CNS could handle, because that was the last of these type of articles that Jones has written. While Jones did take some time off around the holidays, she has been on the job since Jan. 13, and COVID number are apparently no longer her concern.
Perhaps the change in presidents will bring a new concern over the numbers — after all, she can now spin them to blame Biden.